I was a friend, but I was never really one of them after they had read the citations, because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals.
To highlight a character's (usually the protagonist's) personality, the introduction of a foil is used. In Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', Laertes is Hamlet's foil. They were childhood friends but have completely opposite traits and behaviors: Hamlet is verbal, he ponders, and is driven by passionate inaction, Laertes is physical, blusters, and is driven by passionate action.
In Act IV, scene V, we can see Laerts personality; he bursts and needs people to calm him down, whereas Hamlet would have stayed calm and think before acting.
The excerpt posted above is actually taken from the novel "The Rice Sprout Song" which was written by Eileen Chang. And based on the excerpt above, how the underlined words invoked a sense of place and time is that it refers to the Chinese Nationalist victory. This novel was written by the author in the communist China. The answer would be the last option.
Yeats states that he was not closely acquainted with the people in the Easter Rising. He acknowledges that he only exchanged pleasantries with them before the uprising. He also indicates that he has personal reasons for disliking one person. So he is writing about the cause for which they stood, which, by inference, is important.
The comparison of the rebels to "stone" suggests that Yeats may have viewed the rebels' attitude as inflexible or not adapted to the changing times. Yeats also acknowledges the possibility that their deaths may have been "needless" because the British might keep their promises.
However, his reference to the "sacrifice" (of all who had supported Irish independence) and the rebels' "excess of love" suggest that he views their cause in a positive light. Moreover, Yeats's repeated description of the kind of change that the uprising has brought about as "a terrible beauty" suggests that his sympathies lie with the rebels.
To summarize, Yeats places a certain distance between the rebels and himself, but he supports the rebels' cause.
The types of appeal used in this statement are appeals to make it more innovative and cheap for the American people without relying on foreign nations. This is persuasive statement because he is giving statistics to try and get you to agree. He is trying to make energy more environmentally friendly and he is using worlds like cleaner, cheaper, and new jobs, to make it more appealing.
